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Thursday, November 20

Thanks to New Level Community Development Corporation, three recent graduates of Magdalene House will make these three brand new apartments their home. Project Redesign furnished each apartment this morning, the new residents to arrive this afternoon after work. Welcome home!

Thursday, October 23

Twelve wonderful HCA volunteers joined Project Redesign today to makeover two apartments for the mother-child housing at Mending Hearts. After all of the painting, heavy lifting, and decorating, two grateful mothers and their children have a new place to heal. Thank you, HCA!

Thursday, October 2

Sophia's Heart (www.sophiasheart.org) helps families in crisis stay together, providing temporary housing and self development programing to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness. Project Redesign has partnered with this wonderful organization to help furnish homes for those families who have graduated and are ready to live on their own again. Our first family is a mother and young daughter, the mother now working and hoping to attend nursing school---she really inspired us!

Wednesday, September 24

Our new year begins with a new alliance, Men of Valor (men-of-valor.org). We furnished a three bedroom apartment for a very nice family, a mother and her three children, who just moved after 6 years in public housing. We are excited to be part of their new beginning!

Today, with much help from our movers John and Joe, and our student helper, the wonderful Richard Rolfe, Project Redesign furnished a living room and three bedrooms for a hard working mother of 5 children (one girl, four boys). Not all went as expected...we did not have the dowels to stack the bunk beds in one of the boy' rooms so yes, the beds are side by side and blocking doorways until we can locate the missing pieces!

Tuesday, June 10

With your cash donations, we are able to purchase new mattresses and essential bedding (mattress pads, pillows, sheets, etc), lamps, rugs, curtains, window unit air conditioners, vacuum cleaners, chest of drawers, and other necessities. We use In Kind donations of furniture and household goods but never have everything we need to complete a redesign. We thank you for ALL donations!

A big thank you to Kay Kimbro, Jane Claire Kimbro, and Richard Rolfe for helping with this big redesign today. And we beat the rain! A mother and her 3 children, a boy age 4 and two girls 11 and 13---they are new to the Cayce Homes and it was our pleasure to make their new house a welcoming home.

What They're Saying...

Suzanne - Several of the staff just went down to the HWH apartments. To say we were blown away is an understatement. I cannot believe how beautiful and homey the rooms look. Heck, the staff said they would move in. Please know and tell your folks that helped with the apartment how much we all thank them and appreciate everything they do for us. They are going to make many women very happy, proud, and grateful. Most have never had a place to live this nice. It will do more for their self-esteem and road to recovery than you all can ever imagine.Again, thank you so very much.

Seeing these rooms and knowing how this Mom is struggling makes me think of what my great grandmother Carrie used to say, “Love doesn’t stay where you put it.” It multiplies and creates beauty and wonder in ways and places that you can’t foresee or imagine. My prayer is that these gifts of beauty, order and fun flow out in new places and in new ways. We never know what new life is sown by our gifts of kindness and love. Our task is patience and faithfulness remembering that God is in this world.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a part of Project Redesign! It was truly one of the most rewarding days that I have ever been a part of, and I am a better person because of it. Driving to a Titans game or dinner in East Nashville will forever be different! I will now look to the right as we exit for the game or event and think about those families and their children.

Thank you!

Todd Cato, HCA Healthcare

April 15, 2014Suzanne, Sarah, Allison, Karen, Ellie,

I've just looked at the pictures you sent of our new and improved 3rd floor, it looks so good, it looks so neat, it looks FABULOUS! I can't wait to get down there today and see it. Thank you for all you did to improve the quality of life for our guys at Matthew 25!!! On behalf of each of them and of our Board, THANK YOU for sharing your skills and love for others less fortunate. Hal Sauer P.S. I love the picture of our guys who helped you yesterday - thanks for giving them an experience to remember!